1581 in music
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Events
- October 15 – Performance of Script error: No such module "Lang"., the first narrative ballet (incorporating the story of Circe), devised by Louise of Lorraine, wife of Henry III of France, with music by the royal master of music Jacques Salmon and the bass singer Girard de Beaulieu and choreography by Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, opens at the court of Catherine de' Medici in the Louvre Palace in Paris as part of the wedding celebrations for Marguerite of Lorraine.
- Ginés Pérez de la Parra becomes composer and musical director at Orihuela cathedral.
- Marc'Antonio Ingegneri becomes maestro di cappella of Cremona cathedral.
Publications
Music
- Lodovico Agostini – Script error: No such module "Lang". for six voices, book 2 (Venice: Alessandro Gardano)
- Costanzo Antegnati – Script error: No such module "Lang". (motets) for four voices (Brescia: Vincenzo Sabbio)
- Giammateo Asola – Script error: No such module "Lang". (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Joachim a Burck – Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang". for four voices (Frankfurt: Nikolaus Basse)
- Severin Cornet
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". for five, six, and eight voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
- Madrigals for five, six, seven, and eight voices (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin)
- Giovanni Dragoni – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Paolo Isnardi
- Second book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Orlande de Lassus
- Masses for four and five voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlach)
- Book of Script error: No such module "Lang"., and other songs for four, five, six, and eight voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
- Giovanni de Macque – Script error: No such module "Lang". for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Luca Marenzio
- First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Second book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Rinaldo del Mel – First book of motets for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Philippe de Monte
- First book of Script error: No such module "Lang". for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Tenth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: heirs of Girolamo Scotto)
- Fourth book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giovanni Maria Nanino & Annibal Stabile – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — First book of madrigals for five voices
- Benedetto Pallavicino – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Christoph Praetorius – Script error: No such module "Lang". for four voices (Wittenberg: Matthäus Welack), in two volumes
Other
- Fabritio Caroso – Script error: No such module "Lang"., Italian dance manual, containing much dance music
- Vincenzo Galilei – Dialogo della musica antica, et della moderna (Dialogue Concerning Ancient and Modern Music)
Classical music
- none listed
Births
- July 2 – Johann Staden, German organist and composer (d. 1634)
Deaths
- May 7 – Alexander Utendal, Flemish composer (born 1543/45)
- date unknown – Joachim Thibault de Courville, French composer, singer, lutenist and player of the lyre
- probable – Antoine de Bertrand (born 1530/1540)